καταπαίζω
mock, deride
Where this word appears
Every passage where καταπαίζω appears in the Greek Septuagint — 5 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- 2 Kings 2:23 καταπαίζω And he went up thence to Baethel: and as he was going up by the way there came up also little children from the city, and mocked him, and said to him, Go up, bald-head, go up.
- Job 40:19 καταπαίζω Yet one shall take him in his sight; one shall catch him with a cord, and pierce his nose.
- Job 41:25 καταπαίζω He beholds every high thing: and he is king of all that are in the waters.
- Jeremiah 2:16 καταπαίζω Also the children of Memphis and Taphnas have known you, and mocked you.
- Jeremiah 9:4 καταπαίζω Beware you⌃ each of his neighbor, and trust you⌃ not in your brethren: for every one will surely supplant, and every friend will walk craftily.
About this word
About this word
καταπαίζω (katapaízō), “mock, deride,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 5 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →
